The Commonwealth Club is hosting Economist and NY Times Best Seller, Jeremy Rifkin on Wednesday, April 9th at 6:00pm. In his provocative new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, he argues that the coming together of the communication, energy, and internet into a seamless 21st century intelligent infrastructure – the Internet of Things – is boosting productivity to where the cost of producing many goods and services is nearly zero, making them essentially free. Rifkin concludes that while capitalism will be with us, it will not be the dominant economic paradigm later in the century with a world beyond markets in an increasingly interdependent global Collaborative Commons.
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The Commonwealth Club is hosting Economist and NY Times Best Seller, Jeremy Rifkin on Wednesday, April 9th at 6:00pm. In his provocative new book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, he argues that the coming together of the communication, energy, and internet into a seamless 21st century intelligent infrastructure – the Internet of Things – is boosting productivity to where the cost of producing many goods and services is nearly zero, making them essentially free. Rifkin concludes that while capitalism will be with us, it will not be the dominant economic paradigm later in the century with a world beyond markets in an increasingly interdependent global Collaborative Commons.
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